Barefoot Gen Comments

  • Gretchen 2022-10-24 11:38:20

    People who say that the barefoot boy is not well-known should turn their attention to Japan and Europe and the United States. The earliest I knew about this work was Amway from the American Comics Forum. The barefoot boy has a very high status in the European and American world, no less than the shell and the sash male wolf. It's a pity that I didn't collect the comic version due to ignorance. Although the animated version is left-leaning, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Kazuo Oga is an early...

Extended Reading
  • Earl 2022-10-24 14:27:29

    author eats people

    Cough cough! Before introducing this work, I would like to briefly describe the concept of authorship. The so-called author theory, simply put, is a theory that pays more attention to the author than the work. In this theoretical framework, the work has no independent status, and all are...

  • Tyson 2022-10-24 13:32:52

    Small thoughts

    A masterpiece of criticism of militaristic warfare! Especially did not expect that the death of the father, sister, brother, and sister turned out to be all the real experiences of the original author. The nuclear explosion gave people a suffocating feeling, death... pain... torture... parting. The...

Barefoot Gen quotes

  • Gen Nakaoka: I'd like to know if we'll ever have enough food. Will we?

    Daikichi Nakaoka: Yes, son, when the war is over.

    Gen Nakaoka: When will it be over?

    Daikichi Nakaoka: It won't be long. Japan has all but lost the war.

    Gen Nakaoka: Why do we keep on fighting if we've lost the war?

    Daikichi Nakaoka: Why? Because our government is run by madmen. They're just crazy, stupid... all of them.

  • Gen Nakaoka: Hey! How'd I end up here? Guess they decided to bomb us after all.